Spirit MEC shenanigans

Cruise

Cruise

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Fellow Pilots,


After much consideration and thought, members of your MEC made the decision to move for a recall of Capt. Christian Amongero and Capt. Paul Hopkins. Earlier today, representatives from each LEC voted and the motions carried4-2. After the vote, Capt. Sean Creed elected to resign his position as well.


Immediately following the recall vote, an election for new MEC Chairman was held and First Officer James Ackerman was elected interim MEC chairman, while the vice chairman position remains unfilled. James will take his position immediately and serve out the rest of the term ending March 2016.


We would like to thank Captains Amongero, Hopkins, and Creed for their many years of service and commitment to all Spirit pilots. Although a recall can be divisive, we encourage all Spirit pilots to move past this event and unite in the best interest of this pilot group and our profession.


Your MEC leadership will continue their meetings today and tomorrow in FLL and will have another update for you soon.


In unity,


James Ackerman

Interim MEC Chairman
 
Whether or not this was necessary is very debatable. My biggest problem with the whole thing is the poor timing moving into Section 6 negotiations and the way it went down in secrecy.

So, that said, I'm willing to give the MEC the benefit of doubt for the time being. HOWEVER, the they had best produce significant results in short order to justify their decision/ timing.
 
I don't know what happened and other than that email haven't heard anything about anything. So all I know right now is that this seems like bad timing to do this with the contract coming up.
 
Who drove the recall? We dumped most of our MEC about 6 months prior to contract openers (more time than Spirit has) and it's been an interesting ride. That said, because we are a single council system, the membership got a vote on the actual recall of the MEC Leadership (as opposed to the Spirit setup where the membership only has votes on recalls of the LEC guys), so everybody knew what the issues where.

I'd sure as hell be calling my rep and asking what the reason for the recall was, and it better have specific, damnable evidence of mismanagement or bad policy, especially this close to a section 6 opener.
 
The only thing I learned today is that ORD/DTW/ACY voted to keep the current MEC but everyone else voted them out. I still have no idea why other than the answer I keep getting "it's for the best."
 
My husband was on an overnight Monday and met up with his LEC rep. They talked about the pending meeting the next day and his rep said nothing about a recall. His rep was one of the dissenting votes and he wonders if they even knew it was coming.
 
HRDiva said:
My husband was on an overnight Monday and met up with his LEC rep. They talked about the pending meeting the next day and his rep said nothing about a recall. His rep was one of the dissenting votes and he wonders if they even knew it was coming.
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Sounds like how our scumbags who ambushed me and the NC chairman. I hate pilot politics.
 
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